| Show the tho the fol following lowin lenior letter from mark twain appeared in tho alla alia california dated now new york april the Morn cormons mormons ions were holding a grand powwow at keokuk when I 1 was there a week ago the object of which was to deviso devise ways and means of outing ousting brigham young from office and putting young joo joe smith in his place four hundred of tho the saints were present from places in missouri and illinois and young joe a simple well menu meaning ing and very dull doll preacher was with them they came to town dross cd in homely jeans and bringing horns and cymbals and trumpets and all the ungodly paraphernalia of their choir bervice as I 1 used to hear it performed in the mormon church in st louis lonis yours years ago they are good goda honest people believe thoro thoroughly in their air religion and are arc camiet in their hope of getting joe smith placed at the head bead ot the whole C church burch they say they will accomplish it il they call brigham Bri ghim a wicked impostor imposter and his newfangled new mormonism a swindle they claim that polygamy is nota isnora tenet of genbi genuine no Morino nitin it is strange how this lost tribe has kept its faith through so many years of sorrow borrow and disaster these are people who were scattered in tents for miles and miles along tho the roads through lows iowa when ahn mormons Mor mons were driven out of nauvoo with fire and sword twenty fiyo years ago their heavy misfortunes appealed so movi movingly ugly to the kindly instincts of the iowa people that they rescued them from starvation and gaw garo themi them Tood and employment and gp gradually they became absorbed into the population and lost sight of forgotten entirely in fact hll this convene conven tion of young aing Joe joes called them out and then franr arod eiery every asu unsuspected sic acted nook and cranny crept crepe p ormon a mormon who had hadford for many a Y year b been een taken for a baptist or ri it methodist or some other kind of a chrisi chris 1 tian 1 mut young joc jo e had better botter look i for it has bas ba beena n well weli m edited credited rumor in keokuk for two more that brigham has set a head and keeps a destroying ongel angel or so on his track all the time ready to kill idu him when the opportunity tunit y offers and they say that nt if these mormons cormons were ware to start to salt lake jake young ne verget get of sight blu blass effs alive 1 ilal if Y ax toa there ia arc four ilour jaw s they athly are non what ia called the liberal side of the house in dorc elected bythe bytha christian commonwealth T THE supreme court of ohio has decided that fe tomp temporary closing of the polls on election day for dinner or etuy ny other purpose is a violation of law tho the election tir THE Dakota tan states that two new military posts ard to bo be in cikota one on alia big cheyenne Chey ennon enno and p one between hat bat and r fort ort Bertli old i |
